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v2: - Add information about CC, CXX, CFLAGS, and CXXFLAGS (Nicolai)
- Add message at top that meson for mesa is still a work in progress
- Add trailing "/" to directories (Eric E.)
- Fix a number of spelling/grammar/style suggestions from Eric E.
- Make a number of changes as suggested by Emil.
v3: - Fix order of commands in example (Eric E.)
- Add documentation for overriding LLVM version (Eric E.)
v4: - Rebase on master
- update default buildtype
- add note about b_ndebug
- Clarify meson configure a bit
v5: - use <code> for command line arguments (Eric E.)
- Add note about listing options without a build directory
- Minor formatting changes (Eric E.)
- Replace the CC, CFLAGS, etc section with an environment variables
section, which mentions CC, CXX, CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, LDFLAGS, and
DESTDIR
- Add comment that not using buildtype debug might make debugging
harder
- Add comment that b_ndebug and buildtype are orthogonal
Signed-off-by: Dylan Baker <dylanx.c.baker@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch> (v3)
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<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<title>Compilation and Installation using Meson</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mesa.css">
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</head>
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<body>
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<div class="header">
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<h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
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</div>
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<iframe src="contents.html"></iframe>
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<div class="content">
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<h1>Compilation and Installation using Meson</h1>
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<h2 id="basic">1. Basic Usage</h2>
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<p><strong>The Meson build system for Mesa is still under active development,
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and should not be used in production environments.</strong></p>
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<p>The meson build is currently only tested on linux, and is known to not work
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on macOS, Windows, and haiku. This will be fixed.</p>
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<p>
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The meson program is used to configure the source directory and generates
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either a ninja build file or Visual Studio® build files. The latter must
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be enabled via the --backend switch, as ninja is the default backend on all
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operating systems. Meson only supports out-of-tree builds, and must be passed a
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directory to put built and generated sources into. We'll call that directory
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"build" for examples.
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</p>
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<pre>
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meson build/
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</pre>
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<p>
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To see a description of your options you can run <code>meson configure</code>
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along with a build directory to view the selected options for. This will show
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your meson global arguments and project arguments, along with their defaults
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and your local settings.
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Moes does not currently support listing options before configure a build
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directory, but this feature is being discussed upstream.
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</p>
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<pre>
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meson configure build/
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</pre>
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<p>
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With additional arguments <code>meson configure</code> is used to change
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options on already configured build directory. All options passed to this
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command are in the form -D "command"="value".
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</p>
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<pre>
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meson configure build/ -Dprefix=/tmp/install -Dglx=true
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</pre>
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<p>
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Once you've run the initial <code>meson</code> command successfully you can use
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your configured backend to build the project. With ninja, the -C option can be
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be used to point at a directory to build.
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</p>
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<pre>
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ninja -C build/
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</pre>
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<p>
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Without arguments, it will produce libGL.so and/or several other libraries
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depending on the options you have chosen. Later, if you want to rebuild for a
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different configuration, you should run <code>ninja clean</code> before
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changing the configuration, or create a new out of tree build directory for
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each configuration you want to build.
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http://mesonbuild.com/Using-multiple-build-directories.html
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</p>
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<dt><code>Environment Variables</code></dt>
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<dd><p>Meson supports the standard CC and CXX envrionment variables for
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changing the default compiler, and CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS, and LDFLAGS for setting
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options to the compiler and linker.
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The default compilers depends on your operating system. Meson supports most of
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the popular compilers, a complete list is available
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<a href="http://mesonbuild.com/Reference-tables.html#compiler-ids">here</a>.
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These arguments are consumed and stored by meson when it is initialized or
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re-initialized. Therefore passing them to meson configure will not do anything,
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and passing them to ninja will only do something if ninja decides to
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re-initialze meson, for example, if a meson.build file has been changed.
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Changing these variables will not cause all targets to be rebuilt, so running
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ninja clean is recomended when changing CFLAGS or CXXFLAGS. meson will never
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change compiler in a configured build directory.
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</p>
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<pre>
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CC=clang CXX=clang++ meson build-clang
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ninja -C build-clang
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ninja -C build-clang clean
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touch meson.build
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CFLAGS=-Wno-typedef-redefinition ninja -C build-clang
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</pre>
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<p>Meson also honors DESTDIR for installs</p>
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</dd>
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<dt><code>LLVM</code></dt>
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<dd><p>Meson includes upstream logic to wrap llvm-config using it's standard
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dependncy interface. It will search $PATH (or %PATH% on windows) for
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llvm-config, so using an LLVM from a non-standard path is as easy as
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<code>PATH=/path/with/llvm-config:$PATH meson build</code>.
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</p></dd>
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</dl>
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<dt><code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH</code></dt>
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<dd><p>The
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<code>pkg-config</code> utility is a hard requirement for configuring and
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building Mesa on Linux and *BSD. It is used to search for external libraries
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on the system. This environment variable is used to control the search
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path for <code>pkg-config</code>. For instance, setting
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<code>PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/X11R6/lib/pkgconfig</code> will search for
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package metadata in <code>/usr/X11R6</code> before the standard
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directories.</p>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<p>
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One of the oddities of meson is that some options are different when passed to
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the <code>meson</code> than to <code>meson configure</code>. These options are
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passed as --option=foo to <code>meson</code>, but -Doption=foo to <code>meson
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configure</code>. Mesa defined options are always passed as -Doption=foo.
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<p>
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<p>For those coming from autotools be aware of the following:</p>
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<dl>
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<dt><code>--buildtype/-Dbuildtype</code></dt>
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<dd><p>This option will set the compiler debug/optimisation levels to aid
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debugging the Mesa libraries.</p>
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<p>Note that in meson this defaults to "debugoptimized", and not setting it to
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"release" will yield non-optimal performance and binary size. Not using "debug"
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may interfer with debbugging as some code and validation will be optimized
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away.
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</p>
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<p> For those wishing to pass their own -O option, use the "plain" buildtype,
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which cuases meson to inject no additional compiler arguments, only those in
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the C/CXXFLAGS and those that mesa itself defines.</p>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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<dl>
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<dt><code>-Db_ndebug</code></dt>
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<dd><p>This option controls assertions in meson projects. When set to false
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(the default) assertions are enabled, when set to true they are disabled. This
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is unrelated to the <code>buildtype</code>; setting the latter to
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<code>release</code> will not turn off assertions.
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</p>
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</dd>
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</dl>
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